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,  LINCOLN  IN  1861 

From   "Life  of    Lincoln,"   published  by  Doubleday,   Page    &    Co.     Photograph 
taken  by  Hesler  of  Chicago.  Now  the  property  of  Mr.  Frank  A.  Brown  of  Minneapolis. 


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LINCOLN  CENTENNIAL  MEDAL. 
Struck  by  United  States  Mint. 


LINCOLN  CENTENNIAL  MEDAL. 
Struck  by  United  States  Mint. 


THE  GIANT  WHO  CAME  OUT  OF  THE  WEST. 

From  an  oldtime  wet-plate  original  negative  made  by  Alexander  Hesler,  of  Chicago,  at  the  request  of 

the  National  Republican  Committee,  directly  after  Mr.  Lincoln's  nomination,  in  1860.     (See  page  26). 

From  the  collection  of  Henry  C.  Brown,  Esq.,  Hastings-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. 


INDEPENDENCE  DAY  has  come  again  with  its  memories 
of  the  brave  men  who  in  the  long  ago,  in  this  very  city, 
pledged  their  lives,  their  fortunes  and  their  sacred  honor 
that  this  land  might  enjoy  the  blessings  of  liberty. 

For  some  years  we  have  on  this  anniversary  published  a 
booklet  on  one  of  the  worthy  men  of  other  days.  As  every 
one  knows,  this  is  Lincoln's  Centennial  Year ;  and  this  fact 
has  determined  that  our  subject  now  should  be  the  man  who, 
better  than  any  other,  caught  the  spirit  and  established  the 
work  of  the  builders  of  our  Nation — strong,  wise,  #ble,  Joying, 
faithful  Father  Abraham. 

This  is  not  a  life  of  Lincoln.  It  is  merely 'a*  reminder  of ; 
him.  It  is  not  an  attempt  to  tell  something  new,  but  simply 
to  tell  again — by  word  and  picture  to  recall  the  man.  Multi 
tudes  love  to  read  about  him,  to  think  about  him,  to  talk  about 
him ;  here,  then,  those  who  wish  may  see  his  birthplace  as  it 
was  and  as  it  is  to  be ;  the  book  he  studied  and  the  rails  he 
split;  his  hand  and  the  maul  it  swung:  his  home  and  his  tomb ; 
his  form  and  his  face ;  the  clear  writing  of  his  hand  and  the 
clearer  thoughts  of  his  brain ;  reminders  all  of  our  Lincoln— 
the  one  we  love  the  best  of  all. 


PHILADELPHIA 
INDEPENDENCE  DAY 
NINETEEN  NINE 


HOUSE  IN  WHICH  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  WAS  BORN 
From  Harper's  Weekly,  February  13,  1909 


IN  THIS.  LITTLE  CABIN,  ON  A  LITTLE  FARM  NEAR  HODGEN- 
feNTUGKY,  WAS  BORN  ON  FEBRUARY  12,  1809,  TO 
AND-. -NANCY  HANKS  LINCOLN,  THE  SIXTEENTH 

PRESIDENT   OF   THE   UNITED    STATES    OF    AMERICA, 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN 


PIONEER, 

RAIL-SPLITTER, 

LAWYER, 

PRESIDENT, 

STATESMAN, 

PHILOSOPHER, 

FATHER, 


BOATMAN, 

STORE-KEEPER, 

LEGISLATOR, 

COMMANDER, 

DIPLOMATIST, 

RECONCILER, 

EMANCIPATOR, 

PROTECTOR  OF  ALL  LIFE, 
LOVER  OF  ALL  MANKIND. 


LABORER, 

SURVEYOR, 

ORATOR, 

PARDONER, 

PATRIOT, 

SHEPHERD, 

MARTYR, 


WPfr»^ 


MEMORIAL  BUILDING  TO  BE  ERECTED  ON  THE  LINCOLN  FARM. 
From  Collier's  Weekly,  February  13,  1909. 


The  Lincoln  Farm  Association  is  a  patriotic  organization  formed  of  American  citizens 
for  the  purpose  of  preserving  as  a  National  Park  the  farm  on  which  Abraham  Lincoln 
was  born.  It  has  already  purchased  the  farm  of  one  hundred  and  ten  acres,  which  is 
situated  two  miles  from  Hodgenville,  in  the  geographic  center  of  Kentucky.  It  has  also 
obtained  possession  of  the  log  cabin  which  sheltered  Nancy  Hanks  Lincoln  and  her  won 
derful  child.  This  will  be  preserved  for  all  time  in  the  granite  memorial  shown  above. 
The  corner-stone  of  this  building  was  laid  by  President  Roosevelt  on  Lincoln's  Centen 
nial,  February  12,  1909,  and  President  Taft  is  to  dedicate  it  in  the  near  future. 

The  Lincoln  Farm  Association  has  already  over  100,000  members,  who  have  con 
tributed  over  $100,000.  The  officers  and  directors  are  men  of  national  prominence  and 
recognized  public  spirit.  A  handsome  certificate  of  membership  is  sent  to  every  one 
who  contributes  25  cents  or  more.  The  names  of  contributors,  classified  geographically, 
are  to  be  preserved  in  the  fireproof  memorial  building. 

This  is  a  popular  movement,  and  there  is  room  and  a  welcome  in  it  for  all  the  plain 
people  whom  Lincoln  so  understood  and  loved.  Send  your  contribution  to  Clarence  H. 
Mackay,  Treasurer  Lincoln  Farm  Association,  74  Broadway,  New  York  City,  and  have  a 
part  in  making  "the  little  farm  that  raised  a  man"  a  nation's  shrine,  and  join  the  host  of 
those  who  would  do  honor  to  the  one  we  love  the  best  of  all. 


ENGLISH  GRAMMAR- 


THE  KIRKHAM'S  GRAMMAR  USED  BY  LINCOLN  AT  NEW  SALEM 
From  "Life  of  Lincoln,"  published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 


In  1831,  while  clerking  in  a  grocery 
store  at  New  Salem,  Illinois,  Lincoln  de 
termined  to  study  grammar  in  order  to  fit 
himself  better  for  public  speaking  and 
writing.  He  walked  fourteen  miles  for 
this  book.  On  the  counter  of  the  store, 
or  in  the  shade  of  a  tree,  he  worked  for 
hours  on  its  rules.  He  later  gave  this 
book  to  Ann  Rutledge,  his  early  sweet 
heart.  The  words  on  the  title  page,  "Ann 
M.  Rutledge  is  now  learning  grammar," 
were  written  by  Lincoln.  The  order  in 
Lincoln's  hand  on  James  Rutledge  was 
later  pasted  on  the  inner  cover  by  Robert 
Rutledge,  whose  widow  came  into  pos 
session  of  this  most  interesting  relic. 

Lincoln  worked  for  his  learning; 
worked  for  it  long  and  hard  ;  worked  for 
it  in  a  way  only  less  remarkable  than  the 
result  he  obtained.  He  had  the  wisdom 
to  recognize  that  an  education  was  indis 
pensable  to  him,  and  the  courage,  like 
wise,  to  pay  the  price.  His  grammar  he 
knew  by  heart,  his  law  books  became  a 
part  of  his  mind.  He  says  his  habit  was 
to  bound  a  subject  north,  south,  east  and 


west,  and  so  to  grasp  it  and  make  it  his 
own.  With  this  habit  of  mind,  with  the 
Bible  as  his  model,  with  Shakespeare, 
Burns  and  Bunyan  for  his  intimate  com 
panions,  he  in  time  became  able  to  produce 
a  letter  like  that  herewith,  which  hangs 
to-day  on  the  wall  at  Oxford,  the  ancient 
seat  of  learning,  as  an  example  of  the 
English  language  at  its  best. 

A  letter  to  Mrs.   Bixley  of   Boston, 
November  21,  1864 : 

"DEAR  MADAM  : 

I  have  been  shown  in  the  files 
of  the  War  Department  a  statement  of  the 
Adjutant  General  of  Massachusetts  that 
you  are  the  mother  of  five  sons  who  have 
died  gloriously  on  the  field  of  battle.  I 
feel  how  weak  and  fruitless  must  be  any 
words  of  mine  which  should  attempt  to  be 
guile  you  from  a  loss  so  overwhelming, 
but  I  cannot  refrain  from  tendering  you 
the  consolation  that  may  be  found  in  the 
thanks  of  the  Republic  they  died  to  save. 
I  pray  our  Heavenly  Father  may  assuage 
the  anguish  of  your  bereavement,  and 
leave  you  only  the  cherished  memory  of 
the  loved  and  lost  and  the  solemn  pride  that 
must  be  yours  to  have  laid  so  costly  a  sacri 
fice  on  the  altar  of  freedom. 
Yours  very  sincerely  and  respectfully, 

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN." 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  READING  LAW  IN  THE  GROCERY  STORE  AT  NEW 
SALEM,  ILLINOIS,  OF  WHICH  HE  WAS  PART  OWNER 
From  Century  Magazine,  February  1909 


SINCE  LINCOLN 

In  the  life  and  achievements  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  every  humble  and  deserving  child  of  toil 
may  see  the  promise  of  a  better  day. 

Since  Thomas  Lincoln,  what  father,  however 
poor  his  condition  and  heavy  his  toil,  may  not  as 
he  eats  the  bread  of  honest  sweat,  cherish  the  hope 
that  standing  on  the  shoulders  of  his  father's  faith 
ful  work  and  honorable  conduct,  his  son  shall  rise 
to  a  position  of  greater  usefulness  and  higher  honor 
than  he  himself  has  attained. 

And  since  Nancy  Hanks  Lincoln,  what  mother 
may  not  as  she  holds  her  little  one  to  her  breast, 
pondering,  like  Mary  of  Nazareth,  on  the  deep, 
mysterious  things  of  life,  breathe  the  faith-filled 
prayer  that  her  child  may  prove  a  blessing  to 
her  country  and  her  race. 

And  since  Sarah  Bush  Lincoln,  what  woman 
when  called  upon  to  be  a  mother  to  one  who  is  not 
her  son,  shall  not  the  more  freely  give  of  her  love 
and  her  sympathy,  her  instruction,  and  her  encour 
agement  to  the  needy  young  life  that  has  been 
placed  in  her  care,  knowing  since  her  day  of  that 
stepmother's  exceeding  great  reward. 

And  since  Abraham  Lincoln,  what  American 
boy  need  lack  courage  or  high  aim  ?  Who  shall 
cheat  him  of  his  birthright,  made  more  sure  by 
Lincoln's  achievements?  Who  shall  not  hence 
forth  know  that  no  matter  how  humble  his  birth 
or  great  his  obstacles,  with  faith  in  God,  in  man 
and  in  work — "  With  faith  in  the  right  as  God  gives 
us  to  see  the  right,"  there  lies  open  before  him  the 
pathway  to  usefulness,  honor  and  success. 

LINCOLN'S  RAIL-SPLITTING  MAUL 

This  maul  was  obtained  in  1860  of  John  Hanks  of  Sangamon  County,  Illinois,  a  friend  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  with  whom  he  worked  at  splitting  rails,  and  was  certified  by  Hanks  to  have  been  used  by  Lincoln. 
It  was  obtained  of  Hanks  by  Thomas  S.  Mather,  Adjutant  General  of  Illinois,  at  the  request  of  Jonathan  F. 
Morris,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  for  the  political  organization  of  "Wide  Awakes"  of  Hartford.  Mather  took 
the  maul  to  Lincoln,  who  was  at  the  time  using  the  offices  of  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Illinois  as  his 
headquarters  in  the  campaign  of  1860.  Lincoln  stated  that  it  was  in  his  opinion  genuine,  and  that  whatever 
John  Hanks  said  of  it  was  to  be  believed,  as  he  was  a  truthful  man.  After  being  used  by  the  "Wide  Awakes," 
to  whom  it  was  presented  in  I860,  the  maul  remained  in  the  possession  of  Vincent  Whiting,  from  whose 
widow  it  again  came  into  the  possession  of  Mr.  Morris,  who  soon  after,  on  May  7th,  1895,  presented  it  to  the 
Connecticut  Historical  Society. 


10 


CAST  FROM  THE  RIGHT  HAND  OF 
ABRAHAM  LINCOLN 

Made  by  Leonard  W.  Volk, 

at  Springfield,  1860.    From 

the  Century  Magazine, 

February  1909. 

(See  page  26) 


For  untold 
ages    hands    have 
wrought    and    hands 
have  written,  but,   of  the 
countless  millions,  to  this  hand 
only  was  it  given  to  convey  to  the 
human  race  these   pregnant  words : 

"I  do  order  and  declare  that  all  persons 
held  as  slaves  within  said  designated  States  are, 
and  henceforward  shall  be,  free. 

And  upon  this  act,  sincerely  believed  to  be  an  act  of  justice,  warranted  by  the 
Constitution  upon  military  necessity,  I  invoke  the  considerate  judgment  of  mankind 
and  the  gracious  favor  of  Almighty  God." 


Look  on  this  cast,  and  know  the  hand 
That  bore  a  nation  in  its  hold  ; 

From  this  mute  witness  understand 
What  Lincoln  was— how  large  of  mold. 


What  better  than  this  voiceless  cast 

To  tell  of  such  a  one  as  he, 
Since  through  its  living  semblance  passed 

The  thought  that  bade  a  race  be  free  ! 

F.DMUND  CLARENCE  STEDMAN 


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LINCOLN  HOME,  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS 
From  "Life  of  Lincoln,"  published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 

Photograph  by  A.  J.  Whipple  of  Boston.  Mr.  Lincoln  and  one  of  his  sons  stand  inside  the  fence.  House 
is  located  at  Eighth  Street  and  Capitol  avenue.  It  was  built  in  1839.  Purchased  by  Lincoln  in  1844,  and  his 
home  until  he  left  for  Washington.  Originally  one  and  a  half  stories,  Mrs.  Lincoln  had  it  raised  to  its  present 
height  as  a  surprise  to  Mr.  Lincoln  while  he  was  once  absent  on  "the  circuit."  In  1883  Captain  O.  H.  Oldroyd 
rented  the  house  and  opened  its  doors  to  the  people.  He  maintained  this  at  his  own  expense  until  1887, 
when  by  the  gift  of  Hon.  Robert  T.  Lincoln  the  State  of  Illinois  became  the  owner  of  the  place  and  ap 
pointed  Captain  Oldroyd  its  first  custodian.  It  contains  many  valuable  relics. 


On  Monday  morning,  February  11, 1861, 
at  the  railway  station,  Springfield,  from 
the  platform  of  the  car,  in  a  pouring  rain, 
with  uncovered  head  and  uplifted  hand, 
Abraham  Lincoln  spake  these  words : 

"My  friends,  no  one  not  in  my  situation 
can  appreciate  my  feeling  of  sadness  at 
this  parting.  To  this  place,  and  the  kind 
ness  of  these  people,  I  owe  everything. 
Here  I  have  lived  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
and  have  passed  from  a  young  to  an  old 
man.  Here  my  children  have  been  born, 
and  one  is  buried.  I  now  leave,  not 
knowing  when  or  whether  ever  I  may 
return,  with  a  task  before  me  greater 
than  that  which  rested  upon  Washington. 
Without  the  assistance  of  that  Divine 
Being  who  ever  attended  him  I  cannot 
succeed.  With  that  assistance  I  cannot 
fail.  Trusting  in  Him,  who  can  go  with 
me  and  remain  with  you,  and  be  every 
where  for  good,  let  us  confidently  hope 
that  all  will  yet  be  well.  To  His  care  com 
mending  you,  as  I  hope  in  your  prayers 
you  will  commend  me,  I  bid  you  an  af 
fectionate  farewell." 


The  great  soul  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
was  liberated  Saturday,  April  15,  1865. 
The  body  which  had  housed  it  was  taken 
from  Washington  to  Springfield  by  way 
of  Baltimore,  Harrisburg,  Philadelphia, 
New  York,  Albany,  Buffalo,  Cleveland, 
Columbus,  Indianapolis  and  Chicago. 
On  every  mile  of  this  sad  journey  the 
martyr's  body  called  forth  such  love,  re- 
respect  and  grief  as  the  world  had  never 
witnessed.  In  large  cities  elaborate  exer 
cises  were  held,  and  countless  thousands 
spent  the  nights  as  well  as  days  in  passing 
before  his  face,  while  at  every  railway 
station,  hamlet  or  lonely  farmhouse  along 
the  track  the  grief-stricken  people  gave 
sad  salute.  On  May  3rd  the  funeral  train 
reached  Springfield,  and  on  the  following 
day,  after  an  oration  by  Bishop  Simpson, 
and  the  reading  of  his  Second  Inaugural 
over  the  open  grave,  the  body  of  The 
Great  American  was  finally  laid  to  rest. 

"We  rest  in  peace  where  his  sad  eyes 

Saw  peril,  strife  and  pain  ; 
His  was  the  awful  sacrifice, 

And  ours  the  priceless  gain." 


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•Jbt 


LINCOLN'S  FINAL  RESTING  PLACE,  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS 
From  Harper's  Weekly,  February  13,  1909 


Great  as  was  Lincoln's  influence  on 
the  men  of  his  time,  greater  still  is  it  on 
the  men  of  to-day.  Ask  a  hundred  Ameri 
cans  what  public  character  they  most 
admire,  most  care  to  read  about,  think 
about,  hear  about,  and  the  almost  unani 
mous  answer  will  be  Lincoln.  As  Secre 
tary  Stanton  declared  when  the  light  in 
Lincoln's  tired  eyes  went  out  forever  : 
"Now  he  belongs  to  the  ages."  Right, 
stern,  duty-doing  War  Secretary  !  Right ! 
So  has  it  been  !  So  will  it  be  !  Those  of 
every  age  to  come  who  wish  to  express 
the  best  and  suppress  the  worst  in  them 
selves  and  in  public  life  will  find  in 
Lincoln's  struggles  and  success  their 
greatest  encouragement  and  inspiration. 

Among  countless  tributes  to  Lincoln, 
that  of  Lowell  stands  conspicuous.  It  is 
all  the  more  remarkable  because  of  its 
date.  It  was  read  at  the  Harvard  Com 
memoration  within  a  few  months  of  his 
death,  yet  its  wonderful  comprehension 
of  the  man,  its  deep  feeling  and  its  beau 
tiful  expression  leave  nothing  to  be  de 
sired  after  forty  years.  It  should  be  read 
and  studied  as  an  aid  to  forming  a  mental 
picture  of  the  one  we  love  the  best  of  all. 


COMMEMORATION  ODE 

Nature,  they  say,  doth  dote, 

And  cannot  make  a  man 

Save  on  some  worn-out  plan, 

Repeating  us  by  rote  ; 

For  him  her  Old  World  moulds  aside  she  threw, 
And,  choosing  sweet  clay  from  the  breast 

Of  the  unexhausted  West, 
With  stuff  untainted  shaped  a  hero  new, 
Wise,  steadfast  in  the  strength  of  God,  and  true. 


How  beautiful  to  see 

Once  more  a  shepherd  of  mankind  indeed, 
Who  loved  his  charge,  but  never  loved  to  lead  ; 
One  whose  meek  flock  the  people  joyed  to  be, 
Not  lured  by  any  cheat  of  birth 
But  by  his  clear-grained  human  worth, 
And  brave  old  wisdom  of  sincerity  ! 

They  knew  that  outward  grace  is  dust ; 
They  could  not  choose  but  trust 
In  that  sure-footed  mind's  unfaltering  skill 

And  supple-tempered  will 

That  bent  like  perfect  steel  to  spring  again  and 
thrust. 


He  knew  to  bide  his  time, 
And  can  his  fame  abide, 
Still  patient  in  his  simple  faith  sublime, 

Till  the  wise  years  decide. 
Great  captains  with  their  guns  and  drums, 
Disturb  our  judgment  for  the  hour, 

But,  at  last,  silence  comes  ; 
These  all  are  gone,  and  standing  like  a  tower, 
Our  children  shall  behold  his  fame, 

The  kindly-earnest,  brave,  foreseeing  man. 
Sagacious,  patient,  dreading  praise,  not  blame, 
New  birth  of  our  new  soil,  the  first  American. 


1:5 


Abraham  Lincoln  was  a  lover,  an  ex 
ponent  of  "the  love  that  stronger  is  than 
hate" — a  modern  Ben  Adhem,  who  loved 
his  fellowmen  and  his  God ;  whose  love 
of  God  was  oftenest  shown  in  his  love 
For  all  God's  children  everywhere. 

A  good  way  to  observe  Independence 
Day  is  to  thank  God  for  Abraham  Lincoln, 
a  man  who  lived  years  in  advance  of  his 
time,  a  man  of  the  people,  who,  in  the 
midst  of  unique  difficulties  and  misunder- 


LIFE  MASK  OF  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN 

Made  in  Chicago  in  1862  by  Leonard  W.  Volk.     Engraved  on  wood  by  Thomas  Johnson. 
From  Century  Magazine,  February  1909 


standings,  guided  our  Nation  through  the 
fiercest  Civil  War,  treating  all  issues 
with  a  fairness  and  all  men  with  a  kind 
ness  that  it  has  taken  his  countrymen 
two  generations  of  peace  to  acquire. 
So  let  every  American  thank  God  for 
him  to-day,  and  if  he  values  his  country 
and  his  blessings,  let  him  see  that  some 
of  those  who  are  coming  after  us  are 
taught  to  love  Lincoln,  to  revere  his 
name  and  to  follow  his  great  example. 


Lincoln's  supremacy  in  American 
hearts  is  due  to  many  causes  :  We  love 
him  for  his  victory  over  poverty  and 
appalling  obstacles ;  for  his  fidelity  to 
duty  ;  for  his  loyalty  to  the  right ;  for  his 
great  unselfishness  ;  for  his  patience  and 
self-control ;  for  his  wisdom  and  fair 
ness  ;  for  his  tenderness  and  forgive 
ness  ;  for  his  courage  and  sincerity  ;  for 
his  humor  and  humanity  ;  for  his  love  of 
God  and  man  and  country ;  in  short,  we 
love  him  for  the 

-  -      -:-..--_  =4        qualities    that    ap 

peal  to  human 
hearts  the  world 
over,  qualities  that 
in  our  better  mo 
ments  each  of 
us  would  like  to 
have  control  our 
individual  lives. 

Because  Lincoln 
lived  and  loved 
and  did  his  best 
our  lives  are  bet 
ter,  and  the  lives 
of  millions  yet  un 
born  will  be  better 
still.  Yes,  and  be 
cause  he  lived  and 
did  his  best,  our 
best  is  due  those 
among  whom  we 
live  and  the  ob 
jects  to  which  he 
devoted  his  pow 
ers  and  for  which 
he  gave  his  life. 

A  charming- 
trait  in  Lincoln's 
character  was  sin 
cerity.  His  heart 
was  like  the  clear, 
deep  spring  from 
which  we  slaked 
our  thirst  in  child 
hood's  days,  look 
ing  the  while  into 

its  quiet  depths  and  finding  it  sweet  and 
clear  to  the  very  bottom.  A  heart  pure 
and  transparent,  not  muddy  with  strife 
nor  tinctured  with  bitterness,  a  spring  of 
love  flowing  on  and  on  for  all.  It  was  this 
sincerity  that  gained  for  him  the  name  of 
"Honest  Abe."  This  did  not  alone  or 
mainly  mean  that  he  was  honest  in  dol 
lars  and  cents,  but  that  he  was  honest  in 
purpose,  in  speech,  in  deed ;  honest  in  all 
ways,  honest  at  all  times.  "Honest  Abe." 


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HEROIC  BUST  OF  LINCOLN 
From  American  Magazine,  February  1908,  when  it  was  first  published. 

Sculptured  in  marble  by  Gutzon  Borglum.    Finished  December,  1908.    Purchased  by  Mr.  Eugene  Meyer,  Jr., 
of  New  York,  and   presented  to  the   United   States   Government.    Now    in   the  Capitol   at  Washington. 


We  ought  never  to  forget  that  Abraham 
Lincoln,  one  of  the  mightiest  masters  of 
statecraft  that  history  has  ever  known,  was 
also  one  of  the  most  devoted  and  faithful 
servants  of  Almighty  God  who  has  ever  sat 
in  the  high  placesof  the  world. — J.  G.  Blaine. 


He  was  one  whom  responsibility  edu 
cated,  and  he  showed  himself  more  and 
more  nearly  equal  to  duty  as  year  after 
year  laid  on  him  ever  fresh  burdens. 
God-given  and  God-led  and  sustained,  we 
must  ever  believe  him.—  Wendell  Phillips. 


GRAND  REVIEW  OF  THE  ARMY  OF  THE  POTOMAC  BY 
From  "Life  of  Lincoln," 


A  mighty  chorus  this  !  Lumbermen  from  the  forest,  mechanics  from  the  shops, 
merchants  from  the  stores,  students  from  the  schools,  lawyers  from  the  courts, 
ministers  from  the  pulpits,  farmers  from  the  land,  sailors  from  the  sea,  realizing 
that  life  was  not  the  greatest  blessing,  joined  the  host  and  pledged  their  lives  to 
the  preservation  of  a  government  of  and  for  and  by  the  people  as  they  sang, 
"We  are  coming,  Father  Abraham,  three  hundred  thousand  more." 


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PRESIDENT  LINCOLN,  AT  FALMOUTH,  VA.,  IN  APRIL  1863. 
Published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 


One  of  the  sons  of  Father  Abraham,  present  at  this  review,  wrote,  "We  had 
no  eyes  save  for  our  revered  President,  the  Commander-in-chief.  We  passed  close 
to  him,  so  that  he  could  look  into  our  faces  and  we  into  his.  None  of  us  to  our  dying 
days  can  forget  that  countenance  !  Concentrated  in  that  one  great,  strong  yet  tender 
face,  the  agony  of  the  life  or  death  struggle  of  the  hour  was  revealed  as  we  had 
never  seen  it  before.  With  new  understanding  we  knew  why  we  were  soldiers." 


17 


SAINT  GAUDEN'S  STATUE  OF  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  IN  LINCOLN  PARK,  CHICAGO 
From  the  Century  Magazine,  February  1909 

A  work  of  great  dignity  and  artistic  excellence.  The  more  it  is  studied  the  more  impressive  it  appears. 
Its  simplicity  and  naturalness  are  charming.  It  is  indeed  fortunate  for  our  coming  generations  that  the  great 
American  has  been  preserved  for  them  in  this  way  by  our  great  artist. 


IS 


I 


ENDORSEMENT  BY  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN 
From  Putnam's  Magazine,  February  1909 


The  above  endorsement  was  made  by 
President  Lincoln  on  the  original  manu 
script  of  the  Second  Inaugural,  which  he 
presented  to  his  secretary,  John  Hay, 
later  our  country's  great  Secretary  of 
State.  This  most  interesting  manuscript, 
which  is  presented  in  the  following  pages, 
was  first  reproduced  in  Putnam's  Maga 
zine  of  February  1909,  and  is  printed  here 
by  their  permission. 

In  the  following  pages  there  is  also 
presented  an  autograph  copy  of  Lincoln's 
address  at  Gettysburg.  It  is  hoped  that  a 
perusal  of  these  famous  words  in  their 
original  form  will  give  increased  satisfac 
tion  to  those  who  have  long  recognized 
them  as  among  the  most  wonderful  speci 
mens  of  human  speech. 

The  scholars  of  old  Judea  voiced  an 
attitude  common  before  and  since  their 
day  when  they  exclaimed  regarding  the 
Carpenter  of  Nazareth,  "Whence  hath 


this  man  letters,  having  never  learned?" 
In  their  amazement  at  its  form  and  source 
they  failed  to  grasp  the  value  of  the  truth 
expressed.  It  is  not  enough  for  us  to 
wonder  that  this  unschooled  backwoods 
man  could  by  infinite  toil  so  develop  his 
mind  and  his  speech  ;  it  is  far  more  im 
portant  to  study  his  message  and  extend 
his  spirit  to  those  among  whom  we  live  ; 
to  take,  for  instance,  his  famous  words, 
"With  malice  toward  none,  with  charity 
for  all,"  and  to  practice  them,  to  live 
them  until  lawlessness  and  lynching  shall 
no  more  be  found  among  us,  and  class 
hatred  and  race  hatred  shall  be  lost  in  the 
broad  humanity  of  which  Lincoln  was  the 
world's  best  example.  Till  the  day  fore 
shadowed  in  one  of  his  favorite  poems, 
Burns'  "A  man's  a  man  for  all  that." 

"  For  all  that  and  all  that, 
It's  coming  yet  for  all  that ; 
When  man  to  man  the  world  o'er 
Shall  brothers  be  for  all  that." 


THE  LAST  CHANCE 

On  top  of  Lincoln's  desk  when  he  was  practising  law  lay  a  bundle  of  papers  labeled  in  this  way. 

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LINCOLN  AS  SEEN  BY  CONTEMPORARIES 

It  seems  less  difficult  to  understand  and  appreciate  Lincoln  in  our  time  than  it 
was  in  his  time,  and  this  fact  adds  greatly  to  the  credit  of  those  who  through  the  haze 
of  dispute  and  the  clouds  of  battle  recognized  and  proclaimed  his  greatness. 

"The  whitest  soul  a  nation  knew."  —  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman. 

"Lincoln  is  the  honestest  man  I  ever  knew."  —  Stephen  A.  Douglass. 

"The  most  perfect  ruler  of  men  the  world  has  ever  seen."  —  Edwin  M.  Stanton. 

"God-given  and  God-led  and  sustained  we  must  ever  believe  him."  Wendell  Phillips. 

"A  man  of  destiny,  with  character  made  and  moulded  by  Divine  power  to  save  a  nation."—  W.  H.  Seward. 

"Dead,  he  speaks  to  men  who  now  willingly  hear  what  before  they  refused  to  listen  to."  —  //.  U^.  Beecher. 

"A  patriot  and  a  wise  man.  His  death  was  a  calamity  for  the  country,  but  it  left  his  fame  without  a  fault 
or  criticism.  -Charles  A.  Dana. 

"Of  all  the  men  I  ever  met  he  seems  to  possess  more  of  the  elements  of  greatness  combined  with  good 
ness  than  any  other."—  W.  T.  Sherman. 

"There  is  no  man  in  the  country  so  wise,  so  gentle  and  so  firm.  I  believe  the  hand  of  God  placed  him 
where  he  is."—  John  Hay  (in  August,  1863). 

"The  true  representative  of  this  continent,  father  of  his  country,  the  pulse  of  twenty  millions  throbbing 
in  his  heart,  the  thought  of  their  minds  articulated  by  his  tongue.  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

"As  a  child  in  a  dark  night  on  a  rugged  way  catches  hold  of  the  hand  of  its  father  for  guidance  and  sup 
port,  Lincoln  clung  fast  to  the  hand  of  the  people,  and  moved  calmly  through  the  gloom."—  George  Bancroft. 

"Unquestionably  the  greatest  man  I  have  ever  encountered.  He  will  take  rank  in  history  alongside  of 
Washington.  His  fame  will  grow  brighter  as  time  passes  and  his  great  work  is  better  understood."—  U.  S.  Grant 
(who  knew  Lincoln  but  little  more  than  a  year). 

25 


TABLET  ON  CLAYPOOL  HOTEL,  INDIANAPOLIS 

Within  two  squares  of  the  place 
where  these  words  were  spoken,  on  its 
most  impressive  monument, '  'To  Indiana's 
Silent  Victors,"  it  can  to-day  be  seen  how 
the  men  of  that  State  responded  to  this 
appeal  made  by  one  they  well  knew  and 
trusted  and  counted  as  their  own. 

On  that  noble  shaft  it  is  written  that 
two  hundred  and  ten  thousand  four  hun 
dred  and  ninety-seven  men  of  Indiana 
responded  to  their  country's  call,  of  whom 
twenty-four  thousand  four  hundred  six 
teen  gave  their  lives  in  order  that,  as 
Lincoln  put  it,  "this  government  of  the 
people,  by  the  people  and  for  the  people 
should  not  perish  from  the  earth." 

Space  forbids  extended  reference  to 
the  great  struggle  in  which  nine  out  of 
every  twenty  able-bodied  men  in  the  free 
states  and  territories  took  part ;  in  which 
over  two  and  a  quarter  million  men  en 
listed  ;  over  three  hundred  thousand  were 
lost;  and  for  which  twenty-seven  hundred 
and  fifty  million  dollars  were  appropri 
ated  in  four  years.  For  this  contest,  in 
which  there  were  six  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  battles  and  skirmishes,  New  York 


furnished  three  hundred  ninety-two  thou 
sand  two  hundred  seventy  men  ;  Penn 
sylvania,  two  hundred  sixty-five  thousand 
five  hundred  seventeen  ;  Ohio,  two  hun 
dred  forty  thousand  five  hundred  four 
teen,  and  Illinois  two  hundred  fourteen 
thousand  one  hundred  thirty-three,  while 
other  states  met  the  call  in  proportionate 
numbers.  In  four  weeks  Ohio  organized 
and  placed  in  the  field  forty-two  regi 
ments  of  infantry — nearly  thirty-six  thou 
sand  men. 

THE  HESLER  PHOTOGRAPH 

By  means  of  this  wonderful  photo 
graph  the  world  is  fast  becoming  ac 
quainted  with  Lincoln's  striking  features 
without  the  beard,  which  he  first  grew  in 
1860,  at  the  suggestion  of  Grace  Bedell, 
an  unknown  little  girl,  living  in  Western 
New  York.  Being  disappointed  at  a  crude 
poster  of  Lincoln  which  she  had  seen,  the 
little  girl  wrote  him  a  letter  suggesting 
that  a  beard  might  improve  his  picture. 
This  naive  epistle  pleased  Lincoln,  who 
later,  on  his  way  to  Washington,  when  his 
train  stopped  at  Westfield,  inquired  for 
the  little  maiden,  showed  her  how  his  new 
beard  looked,  and  gave  her  a  kiss  to  be 
remembered  forever. 

This  negative  became  the  property  of 
George  B.  Ayres  when  he  purchased  the 
Hesler  photograph  gallery.  After  some 
years  he  began  to  realize  its  historic  in 
terest,  and  placed  it  with  another  taken  at 
the  same  time  among  his  personal  effects 
when  he  moved  from  Chicago  in  1867.  In 
this  way  they  escaped  the  great  Chicago 
fire  of  October,  1871.  Mr.  Ayres  after 
ward  moved  to  Philadelphia,  where  he 
resided  till  his  death  in  1907. 

Of  this  photograph  Lincoln  himself 
said:  "Well,  that  looks  better  and  ex 
presses  me  better  than  any  I  have  seen. 
If  it  pleases  the  people  I  am  satisfied." 
Lincoln's  early  companions,  those  who 
knew  him  before  war  and  worry  had 
used  him  for  an  anvil,  pronounced  the 
photograph  a  beautiful  and  truthful  rep 
resentation  of  their  friend. 

THE  CAST  OF  LINCOLN'S  HAND 

This  was  made  by  L.  W.  Volk  at 
Lincoln's  Springfield  home.  Asked  to 
clench  his  fist  about  some  object,  Lincoln 
went  to  his  wood-shed,  placed  an  old 
broom  handle  on  the  sawbuck,  and  sawed 
the  section  shown  in  the  cast.  Replying 
to  Volk's  apology  for  the  trouble  he  had 
made,  Lincoln  remarked:  "I  have  always 
been  my  own  wood  sawyer." 


26 


LINCOLN  IN  1860 
From  Pearson's  Magazine,  October  1908,  when  it  was  first  published. 

The  photograph  is  owned  by  Mr.  Charles  W.  McLellan  of  New  York.    The  frame  is  of  walnut 
logs  split  by  Lincoln   in   his  wood-chopper  days,   when   he  earned  thirty-seven  cents    a    day. 


LINCOLN'S  NAME 

From  what  people  love  the  most  you 
may  likely  learn  what  those  people  are. 
Notice,  and  you  will  find  that  people  do 
not  mention  Lincoln's  name  with  a 
racket  and  hurrah  ;  the  men  of  his  day 
doubtless  did  that,  but  the  years  have 
carried  him  into  a  better  place.  At  a 
certain  depth  all  human  hearts  com 
municate,  and  far  down  below  the  level 
of  agitation,  or  dispute  or  indifference, 
with  the  name  of  mother,  of  the  old  home, 
of  our  dear  departed,  in  every  American 
heart  is  enshrined  the  name  of  Lincoln. 


LINCOLN  ON  LABOR 

"I  am  not  ashamed  to  confess  that 
twenty-five  years  ago  I  was  a  hired  laborer 
mending  rails,  at  work  on  a  flatboat — just 
what  might  happen  to  a  poor  man's  son.  I 
want  every  man  to  have  the  chance — and 
I  believe  a  black  man  is  entitled  to  it — in 
which  he  can  better  his  condition  ;  when 
he  may  look  forward  and  hope  to  be  a 
hired  laborer  this  year  and  the  next,  work 
for  himself  afterward,  and  finally  to  hire 
men  to  work  for  him.  That  is  the  true 
system.  Then  you  can  better  your  con 
dition,  and  so  it  may  go  on  and  on." 


27 


"BACK  TO  THE  DECLARATION" 


The  men  who  took  that  momentous 
step  at  Philadelphia  in  1776  spoke  for 
Abraham  Lincoln,  then  unborn.  Their 
startling  declaration  that  all  men  are 
created  equal  found  in  Lincoln's  heart 
its  most  sincere  acceptance,  and  in  his 
life  its  strongest  champion.  With  Lincoln 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  was  no 
"glittering  generality";  his  conduct  was 
ever  in  line  with  its  words. 

Standing  in  Independence  Hall  at 
Philadelphia,  on  February  22,  1861,  on 
his  way  to  Washington  to  assume  the 
presidency,  Lincoln  made  the  following 
solemn  and  prophetic  address : 

"I   am  filled  with  deep  emotion  at 
finding  myself   standing  in    this    place, 
where  were  collected  together  the  wis 
dom,   the  patriotism,   the 
devotion    to    principle 
from    which    sprang    the 
institutions   under   which 
we  live. 

You  have  kindly  sug 
gested  to  me  that  in  my 
hands  is  the  task  of  re 
storing  peace  to  our  dis 
tracted  country.  I  can 
say  in  return,  sir,  that  all 
the  political  sentiments  I 
entertain  have  been 
drawn,  so  far  as  I  have 
been  able  to  draw  them, 
from  the  sentiments  which 
originated  in  and  were 
given  to  the  world  from 
this  hall.  I  have  never 
had  a  feeling,  politically, 
that  did  not  spring  from 
the  sentiments  embodied 
in  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

I  have  often  pondered  over  the  dan 
gers  which  were  incurred  by  the  men  who 
assembled  here  and  framed  and  adopted 
that  Declaration.  I  have  pondered  over 
the  toils  that  were  endured  by  the  officers 
and  soldiers  of  the  army  who  achieved 
that  independence.  I  have  often  inquired 
of  myself  what  great  principle  or  idea  it 
was  that  kept  this  Confederacy  so  long 
together.  It  was  not  the  mere  matter  of 
the  separation  of  the  colonies  from  the 
motherland,  but  that  sentiment  in  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  which  gave 
liberty  not  alone  to  the  people  of  this 
country,  but  hope  to  all  the  world,  for 
all  future  time.  It  was  that  which  gave 


"For  thou  art  Freedom's  now, 

and  Fame's  - 
One  of  the  few,  the  immortal  names 

That  were  not  born  to  die." 


promise  that  in  due  time  the  weights 
would  be  lifted  from  the  shoulders  of  all 
men  and  that  all  should  have  an  equal 
chance.  This  is  the  sentiment  embodied 
in  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

Now,  my  friends,  can  this  country  be 
saved  on  that  basis?  If  it  can,  I  will  con 
sider  myself  one  of  the  happiest  men  in 
the  world  if  I  can  help  to  save  it.  If  it 
cannot  be  saved  upon  that  principle,  it 
will  be  truly  awful.  But  if  this  country 
cannot  be  saved  without  giving  up  that 
principle,  I  was  about  to  say  that  I  would 
rather  be  assassinated  on  this  spot  than 
surrender  it. 

My  friends,  this  is  wholly  an  unpre 
pared  speech.  I  did  not  expect  to  be  called 
on  to  say  a  word  when  I  came  here.  I 
supposed  I  was  merely  to 
do  something  toward  rais 
ing  a  flag;  I  may,  therefore, 
have  said  something  indis 
creet.  But  I  have  said 
nothing  but  what  I  am  will 
ing  to  live  by,  and,  if  it  be 
the  pleasure  of  Almighty 
God,  to  die  by." 

These  significant 
words  spoken,  Mr.  Lincoln 
went  outside  and  raised  to 
the  top  of  the  building  he 
so  venerated  the  flag  he  so 
much  loved.  There  was  a 
new  star  added  to  it  that 
day  for  Kansas.  Thirty- 
four  this  made  it,  and 
thirty-four  they  were  to 
remain  as  the  old  flag 
rode  all  through  the  fierce 
conflict  till  peace  wel 
comed  back  the  other  States  to  the  stars 
that  had  awaited  their  return. 

In  the  speech  given  above  Lincoln's 
address  at  Gettysburg  was  foreshadowed 
and  embodied.  He  looked  upon  this  gov 
ernment  of  ours  as  the  hope  of  the  race  ; 
he  looked  to  it  to  improve  the  condition 
of  the  people  ;  to  "lift  the  weights  from 
the  shoulders  of  all  men."  He  regarded 
the  war  as  a  test  if  this  were  possible.  His 
faith  in  the  people  and  the  people's  God 
made  him  sure  of  the  result ;  made  him 
willing  to  bide  his  time ;  made  him  each  day 
dedicate  himself  anew  to  the  task  remain 
ing  before  him  in  order  that  "government 
of  the  people,  by  the  people  and  for  the 
people  should  not  perish  from  the  earth." 


28 


LINCOLN  CRYSTALS 


If  a  crystal  may  be  defined  as  a  thing  of  perfect  symmetrical  form  and  transparent 
character,  then  many  of  the  utterances  of  Abraham  Lincoln  might  be  so  called.  When 
passed  through  his  clear  mind  and  expressed  in  his  clear  language,  the  issues  of  his 
time  were  crystallized  indeed.  Here  are  a  few  specimens. 


With  public  sentiment,  nothing  can 
fail ;  without  it  nothing  can  succeed. 

Faith  in  God  is  indispensable  to  suc 
cessful  statesmanship. 

Work,  Work,  Work  is  the  main  thing. 

For  those  who  like  this  kind  of  book, 
this  is  the  kind  of  book  they  will  like. 

With  malice  toward  none,  with  charity 
for  all,  with  firmness  in  the  right  as  God 
gives  us  to  see  the  right,  let  us  strive  on 
to  finish  the  work  we  are  in. 

That  some  are  rich  shows  that  others 
may  become  rich. 

The  Lord  must  love  the  common  peo 
ple—that's  why   he  made 
so  many  of  them. 

Although  volume  upon 
volume  is  written  to  prove 
slavery  a  very  good  thing, 
we  never  hear  of  a  man  who 
wishes  to  take  the  good  of 
it  by  being  a  slave  himself. 

I  should  be  the  most 
presumptuous  blockhead 
upon  this  footstool  if  I  for 
one  day  thought  that  I 
could  discharge  the  duties 
which  have  come  upon 
me  since  I  came  into  this 
office  without  the  aid  and 
enlightenment  of  One 
who  is  stronger  and  wiser 
than  all  others. 

Our  Government  rests 
in  public  opinion.  Who 
ever  can  change  public 
opinion  can  change  the 
Government  practically  just  so  much. 
Public  opinion  on  any  subject  always  has 
a  "central  idea."  That  central  idea  in  our 
political  public  opinion  at  the  beginning 
was  "the  equality  of  men."  And  its  con 
stant  working  has  been  a  steady  progress 
toward  a  practical  equality  of  all  men. 

One  war  at  a  time  is  enough. 

I  know  I  am  right  because  I  know 
Liberty  is  right. 

If  men  never  began  to  drink  they 
would  never  become  drunkards. 

Let  not  him  who  is  houseless  pull 
down  the  house  of  another,  but  let  him 
work  diligently  and  build  one  for  himself. 


"His  life  was  gentle, 

And  the  elements  so  mixed  in  him 

That  Nature  might  stand  up 

And  say  to  all  the  world, 

'This  was  a  man.'  " 


There  is  no  grievance  that  is  a  fit  ob 
ject  of  redress  by  mob  law. 

Let  us  have  faith  that  right  makes 
might,  and  in  that  faith  let  us  to  the  end 
dare  to  do  our  duty  as  we  understand  it. 
Labor  is  prior  to  and  independent  of 
capital.  Capital  is  only  the  fruit  of  labor 
and  could  never  have  existed  first.  Labor 
is  the  superior  of  capital  and  deserves 
much  the  higher  consideration.  No  men 
living  are  more  worthy  to  be  trusted  than 
those  who  toil  up  from  poverty. 

A  house  divided  against  itself  cannot 
stand.  I  believe  this  Goverment  cannot 
endure  permanently  half 
slave  and  half  free.  I  do 
not  expect  the  Union  to  be 
dissolved,  but  I  do  expect 
it  will  cease  to  be  divided. 
It  will  become  all  one 
thing  or  all  the  other. 

In  the  right  to  eat  the 
bread  which  his  own  hand 
earns  the  negro  is  my 
equal,  and  the  equal  of 
Judge  Douglass,  and  the 
equal  of  every  living  man. 
You  can  fool  all  of  the 
people  some  of  the  time, 
and  some  of  the  people  all 
of  the  time,  but  you  cannot 
fool  all  the  people  all  the 
time. 

What  I  say  is  that  no 
man  is  good  enough  to  gov 
ern  another  man  without 
that  other's  consent.   This 
is  the  leading  principle — the  sheet  anchor 
of  American  republicanism. 

Stand  with  anybody  that  stands  right. 
Stand  with  him  while  he  is  right,  and  part 
with  him  when  he  goes  wrong. 

I  am  not  bound  to  win,  but  I  am  bound 
to  be  true  ;  I  am  not  bound  to  succeed,  but 
I  am  bound  to  live  up  to  what  light  I  have. 
I  have  no  prejudice  against  the  South 
ern  people.  They  are  just  what  we  would 
be  in  their  situation.  If  slavery  did  not 
now  exist  among  them  they  would  not  en 
dorse  it.  If  it  did  now  exist  among  us, 
we  should  not  instantly  give  it  up. 
What  is  inherently  right  is  politically  safe. 


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A  SERVANT  OF  THE  PEOPLE 


To  a  great  and  glorious  army  of  her  sons 
there  was  given,  as  to  Abraham  Lincoln, 
the  great  honor  to  die  for  our  country; 
but  to  none  of  them  was  it  also  given  to 
love  and  labor  for  it  so  effectively  as  he. 
We  must  not  in  his  goodness  lose 
sight  of  his  greatness.  Like  many  others, 
he  was  a  man  of  the  people,  but  to  an 
unusual  degree  he  was  the  people's  man : 
he  understood  them,  he  sympathized  with 
them,  he  thought  of  them,  he  consulted 
with  them,  and  it  was  always  his  highest 
satisfaction  to  know  and  do  their  will. 


this  same  compass,  soon  to  mislay  it,  but 
Lincoln  used  it  to  the  end.  "The  people  ! 
the  people  !"  this  was  the  keynote  of  his 
service,  the  foundation  of  his  statesman 
ship.  An  unfailing  faith  in  the  common 
people  and  the  common  righteousness  of 
the  plain  people,  as  he  called  them,  was 
the  compass  by  which  he  ever  steered  his 
difficult  course.  This  compass  brought 
him  to  his  great  goal,  and  made  him  ever 
more  the  answer  of  Democracy  when 
challenged  by  the  nations  of  the  world, 
"Show  us  your  man." 


THE  EARLIEST  PORTRAIT  OF  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 
From  "Life  of  Lincoln,"  published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 

From  the  original  daguerreotype  owned  by  the  Hon.  Robert  T.  Lincoln. 
Date  thought  to  be  1848,  when  Lincoln  was  39. 


He  declared :  "The  one  great  living  prin 
ciple  of  all  democratic  government  is  that 
the  representative  is  bound  to  carry  out 
the  known  will  of  his  constituents."  At 
the  very  beginning  of  his  public  service 
he  said:  "While  acting  as  their  repre 
sentative  I  shall  be  governed  by  their  will 
on  all  subjects  on  which  I  have  the  means 
of  knowing  what  their  will  is ;  and  upon 
all  others  I  will  do  what  my  own  judgment 
teaches  me  will  advance  their  interests." 
Many  officeholders  have  started  out  with 


A  GROWING  FAME 

Every  year  since 
Lincoln's  death  has 
carried  his  name  and 
fame  higher  in  the  es 
timation  of  mankind. 
There  are  at  least  five 
hundred  Lincoln  col 
lections  and  a  grow 
ing  Lincoln  litera 
ture.  There  are  said 
to  be  three  thousand 
books  and  pamphlets 
on  Lincoln,  not  in 
cluding  periodical 
literature,  engrav 
ings,  lithographs, 
paintings  and  music. 
There  are,  besides, 
large  collections  of 
photographs  and  also 
of  relics  such  as  that 
of  Mr.  Oldroyd,  in  the 
house  at  Washington 
in  which  Lincoln  died. 
Lives  of  Lincoln  have 
been  published  in  all 
leading  foreign  lan 
guages.  The  words  of 
Lincoln  have  become 
the  common  property  of  mankind  and 
they  are  everywhere  used  in  conversation 
and  in  literature  as  are  those  of  his  favor 
ite  authors,  Shakespeare  and  Burns,  or  of 
the  Bible,  from  which  he  himself  so  fre 
quently  and  so  effectively  drew.  And  so 
it  is  that  Lincoln  is  to-day  a  growing  in 
fluence  in  the  affairs  of  men  ;  and  so  will 
it  be  as  each  succeeding  year  further  car 
ries  his  words  into  the  language,  his 
ideas  into  the  government  and  his  mem 
ory  into  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen. 


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STATUE  OF  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,  UNVEILED  IN  HIS  NATIVE  TOWN,  HODGENVILLE,  KY. 
MEMORIAL  DAY,  1909.    ADOLPH  A.  WEINMAN,  SCULPTOR. 
From  Collier's  Weekly,  June  19,  1909. 


This  statue  is  an  outgrowth  of  the  work  of  the  Lincoln  Farm  Association,  in  pre 
serving  and  popularizing  Lincoln's  birthplace.  It  is  the  gift  of  the  State  and  the  Nation 
to  the  little  town  near  which  the  great  Emancipator  first  saw  the  light  of  day. 

The  statue  is  located  in  the  Court  House  Square.  The  unveiling  ceremony  was  beau 
tiful  and  impressive.  A  long  procession  of  school  children,  all  in  white,  each  carrying  a 
wreath  of  roses,  acted  as  escorts  to  the  carriages  containing  the  guests.  Among  these 
were  Honorable  Robert  T.  Lincoln  and  Mrs.  Ben  Hardin  Helm,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Abraham 
Lincoln,  who  unveiled  the  statue.  The  photograph  gives  a  happy  picture  of  this  inter 
esting  event :  with  flowers  and  garlands,  with  singing  children,  with  veterans  of  the 
blue  and  the  gray,  with  the  grandchildren  of  Lincoln's  neighbors,  with  his  only  surviving 
son,  with  the  sister  of  his  wife,  with  the  strains  of  the  "Star  Spangled  Banner",  "My 
Old  Kentucky  Home"  and  "America",  with  the  old  flag  over  all,  the  men  and  women  of 
Kentucky  did  honor  to  her  most  famous  son. 

Colonel  Henry  Watterson,  a  Confederate  veteran,  and  doubtless  the  best  known 
Kentuckian  living,  in  his  address  said:  "Lincoln's  one  aim,  his  single  purpose,  was  to 
save  the  Union.  We  owe  its  preservation  to  his  wisdom,  to  his  integrity,  to  his  firmness 
and  his  courage.  As  none  other  than  Washington  could  have  led  the  armies  of  the 
Revolution  from  Valley  Forge  to  Yorktown,  none  other  than  Lincoln  could  have  main 
tained  the  government  from  Sumter  to  Appomattox.  All  of  us  are  Unionists  now." 

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